Heat up your summer with open-air screenings, smash hit musicals, mid-century sculpture, immersive shows, eclectic concerts and more.
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Art & designTalks & eventsImmersiveContemporary musicClassical musicCinema
Frequencies: The sounds that shape us
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A season that brings you music and takes you beyond, to interrogate how you perceive and encounter sound.
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Contemporary music
Rebel Radio
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Experience the sound of resistance and reinvention across this month-long celebration of pirate radio and its lasting impact on music, culture and community.
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Contemporary music
Reprezent Radio: Live from the Barbican
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Youth-led station Reprezent Radio takes over the Barbican for four days this June, airing live from a custom-built studio with four themed broadcasts. Book free tickets to join us in-person.
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Cinema
Queer 70s: LGBTQ+ Cinema in the Decade after Stonewall
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Travel back to the 1970s, when LGBTQ+ lives were shown on screen with an unapologetic gusto unthinkable a decade before.
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Cinema
SAFAR Film Festival 2025
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SAFAR Film Festival, the UK’s leading platform for independent Arab cinema, returns from 11-28 June for its 10th edition.
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Contemporary music
A Warp Happening
Warp Records, the visionary label behind some of the most ground-breaking electronic and experimental music of the past three decades, join us for their first label based event in over a decade.
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Cinema
RTA: An Archive Mixtape of Pirate Radio and Black Media
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Rewinding the Airwaves is a curated archive mixtape that dives deep into the rich, rebellious world of UK pirate radio and ground-breaking Black media from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Contemporary music
Summer Jazz Series 2025
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A summer of boundary-pushing jazz, legendary collaborations, and electrifying live performances.
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Cinema
Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective
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A selection of films celebrating the work and impact of Austrian film director Michael Haneke, who casts his lens at class, alienation and humanity at large.
